Interdisciplinary Studies at Tech?

I don't know that's true MacDaddy2. If kids really have no shot, we shouldn't be recruiting them and we do shy away from recruits due to grades. Plus with the rules today, they have to make progress towards their degree, so we should find out pretty quickly unless we're sheltering them from their major.
 
The reason our graduation rates are lower than other schools isn't due to Tech being too hard, or due to them being too dumb, or whatever. It's because essentially all Tech degrees are 5 year programs, even though they're officially supposed to be 4 year programs. I only know one guy who got his undergrad in 4 years.
 
beej67 said:
The reason our graduation rates are lower than other schools isn't due to Tech being too hard, or due to them being too dumb, or whatever. It's because essentially all Tech degrees are 5 year programs, even though they're officially supposed to be 4 year programs. I only know one guy who got his undergrad in 4 years.
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i got mine in 3 years and brought only insignificant credit hours with me to Tech by getting the AP 5 in English and in Calc.

it was during the quarters system, though, and i went two of the three summers. i entered fall 88 and graduated summer 91. Physics only required 190 hours, about 1 quarter less than most majors, but i just averaged 18hours/quarter. i ended up with Highest Honors, and in fact, the highest GPA that session within the College of Sciences which earned me a picknick with Mr. Crecine
 
Tech really needs to improve SA graduation rates to at least the same as the student body. We may be losing some real SA's to other schools because of this. It is the individuals responsibility, but the school has some responsibility also because they require so much of the SA time for Athletics.
 
BuzzCzar said:
i got mine in 3 years and brought only insignificant credit hours with me to Tech by getting the AP 5 in English and in Calc.

it was during the quarters system, though, and i went two of the three summers. i entered fall 88 and graduated summer 91. Physics only required 190 hours, about 1 quarter less than most majors, but i just averaged 18hours/quarter. i ended up with Highest Honors, and in fact, the highest GPA that session within the College of Sciences which earned me a picknick with Mr. Crecine
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That's cheating man, summer quarters count, so you actually got out one quarter early, not a year. I took 13 quarters to finish.
 
you are right, it was 11 quarters instead of 12

however, it was at times torturous not to get that summer break that others got. i could have used a recharge during those quarters, so i dont think you can entirely discount the fact that they were in a row, except one quarter i went straight through without a break.. cruel and unusual punishment when i think back on it now...
 
i got mine in 3 years and brought only insignificant credit hours with me to Tech by getting the AP 5 in English and in Calc.

it was during the quarters system, though, and i went two of the three summers. i entered fall 88 and graduated summer 91. Physics only required 190 hours, about 1 quarter less than most majors, but i just averaged 18hours/quarter. i ended up with Highest Honors, and in fact, the highest GPA that session within the College of Sciences which earned me a picknick with Mr. Crecine
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I have a friend who graduated with his bachelors in Aerospace in 3, and his masters in 1, got a job strait out of school designing jet engines. His roommate's a rocket scientist. But they were outliers. If I knew a hundred students while I was at tech (and I may have known more) he was only one. And I'd guess 70% of the people I knew took 5 years to get out, and 98% took at least an extra quarter to make up time they'd lost here or there.

you are right, it was 11 quarters instead of 12
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...and you averaged 18 hours a quarter. That's insane. I only did that once, and I'd be highly surprised if any of our athletes did it ever.
 
alan71 said:
What about the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts? Does this require Calculus or tough math? The Ivan Allen College may be good for our SA's.
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Yea they do, the same math that the mgt majors take. This is part of the problem, someone essentially majoring in History shouldn't have to take so much math. I don't know if math is even the problem though.

On a side note, the athletics help support the academics as well. GT would have a hard time supporting a student body it's size and quality without athletics. A lot of the more well rounded students would go elsewhere.
 
RamblinPeck said:
I seriously doubt something like that would attract anymore SAs than we already have, and it certainly wouldnt keep them for more than a year or two.
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Let's hope Paul Johnson can get more out of the talent and team performance than Gailey did so we can use the 3, 4 year players to advantage.
 
BuzzCzar said:
you are right, it was 11 quarters instead of 12

however, it was at times torturous not to get that summer break that others got. i could have used a recharge during those quarters, so i dont think you can entirely discount the fact that they were in a row, except one quarter i went straight through without a break.. cruel and unusual punishment when i think back on it now...
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Yeah, it could get kind of old, but summer quarter was my favorite time of the year. Classes were smaller, the profs were more laid back and the girls wore less clothing. Of course I was IM so maybe you poor engineers didn't have anything worth looking at?:laugher:
 
What in the hell is wrong with you people?:eek:

Anybody can study hard and gradumate. You really WANTED to leave such a great place for a real jorb??!?? You really should have accepted the challenge and slept in once in a while.

22 quarters here:wow:. An extra football season (**** you, Coach Curry!):mad:. Penny beer at One Eyed Jack's :biggthumpup:. Weekends at Bauder;) and Riverbend:fingersx:. The Chattahoochee Raft Race:D and tubin' every other free weekend.
 
This is part of the problem, someone essentially majoring in History shouldn't have to take so much math.
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They should probably have more math at every other school, since historians and media types are wretched at understanding what statistics mean.
 
beej67 said:
They should probably have more math at every other school, since historians and media types are wretched at understanding what statistics mean.
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i agree but maybe they should take something more practical, like...maybe...statistics:)

Seriously, it sounds a hell of a lot more useful to a History major than survey of calc does.

Again, though, I have no idea if math is the real problem. I really don't have any idea if there is a real problem, the restrictions we put on recruiting are of our own making.
 
I took calculus at Tech but Majored in IM. I didn't use calculus once in my 30 year career. I don't know why Tech is in love with calculus. It seems to me, a Management or Liberal Arts Major will never use it. I worked with a lot of research scientists (mostly engineers - some from Tech) also, and as far as I know they never used calculus either. Why make students take courses they will never use for their Major? Who decides this stuff anyway, they must have never worked n the real world. Simple math and statistics are important and I did use this a lot.
 
I don't use calculus for my job, but every equation, expression, and mathematical concept I do use comes from calculus.
 
beej67 said:
I don't use calculus for my job, but every equation, expression, and mathematical concept I do use comes from calculus.
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Quoted for the truth, although I did get real bored one day and concocted a rather large and unwieldly equation that reduced down to 42.
 
Liberal arts and management majors don't even take real Calc I. They take "Survey of Calculus". Their other math classes are non-calc.

I think the calculus thing is somewhat blown out of proportion.
 
alan71 said:
I took calculus at Tech but Majored in IM. I didn't use calculus once in my 30 year career.

I haven't either, so far. In fact, the greatest un-taught course is "Where To Look It Up". If you need to know, it (or a tip on how to calculate it) is in a table somewhere..
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